This sounds like the problem I was having with the installer not using UID 1000 when other user accounts are found.

I've not tested it this time round, as I already had a (manually) created user from an earlier install, and just imported that. Its nice to know that I'm not the only one who needs the first user created, as in the past, with a UID of 1000, instead of some increment from that number.

Running id revealed the source of the problem. On all my other systems, the first user account I create is my own and all of them have UID of 1000 and GID of 1000. On SOHO b2.1 I created my own user account first, as usual, but the UID and GID were 1001. That, of course, causes copying to or from SOHO from my other Vector installations to not work and I get a permission denied.

I wanted to change my ID numbers to 1000 but VASM doesn't offer that option and neither could I find it in KDE. So once again, Google was my friend. As root, I edited /etc/passwd and /etc/group and changed the numbers to 1000. I was then able to copy stuff from my home directory on another VL installation.

I hope this will be changed so that the first user created is 1000. If not, it will create minor havoc when the user tries to copy from the same user's home directory on another VL. I usually create a visitor account second and one for my husband third, but I haven't gotten around to that yet. I'll be curious to see whether those numbers are also messed up. Visitor should be 1001.

Will there be a Webcam application added? Or can we install wXcam from the repos? I have an old QuickCam Messenger that I got working in wXcam on my VL6 Standard installation on the same computer. I haven't been able to get it working in Skype, however, but haven't exhausted the bag of tricks yet. This Webcam is not supported and does not work on Vista or Win 7, so having it work in VL is particularly gratifying.

I haven't installed Skype yet on SOHO and I was hoping the Webcam would work better on SOHO than it does on Standard, but without a Webcam application to see whether it's working at all this is a bit mystery.--GrannyGeek

I hope Inkscape .47 will be included instead of Inkscape .46. I've been using Inkscape .47 on my VL6 Standard installation on the same computer and it's working very well.

I did update to Inkscape .47 through Gslapt on SOHO b2.1. When I started Inkscape from the command line, I got error messages for four missing library links. I was able to get Inkscape working by creating the symlinks myself.

There are also warnings for things that don't seem to have much impact on the way Inkscape runs. Here are a few:

While I'm thinking of it, Flash has had a "major" security update. I installed it on my VL6Light laptop and everything is working. I haven't checked to see whether it's already in SOHO and I haven't yet upgraded Flash on my VL6 Standard Deluxe partition. Will do that after I post this. I'm writing from Opera on SOHO.--GrannyGeek

It hangs for an indefinite amount of time. The installer window becomes unresponsive and has to be killed. Yes I see the red letters. However, it only says something like "Scanning for media" but does not have any specific device it says it is scanning.

I'll try it again tonight and let it sit there for a lot longer and see if anything happens. The scanning for media part is pretty much exactly the same as in previous VL releases with the text installer right? If so, it never takes more than a few seconds on my machine.

My install goes the same way as Dweeberkittys. I thought I had a bad burn on my cd so I tried 5 times.The cd worked fine on my old athlon 1000.It locked up on my AMD 64 single core. I installed onto the hard drive using my old computer and moved it to my amd64 and it works fine.Dont know why it wont work on the 64 bit..All I had to do was change video when I moved the hard drive.